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Takuya Yamamoto committed Sep 3, 2018
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After page fault handler finished it's work and as result our `early_level4_pgt` contains entries which point to the valid addresses.

Other exception handling
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In early interrupt phase, exceptions other than page fault are handled by `early_fixup_exception` function which is defined in [arch/x86/mm/extable.c](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/mm/extable.c) and takes two parameters - pointer to kernel stack which consists of saved registers and interrupt number:

```C
void __init early_fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
{
...
...
...
}
```
First of all we need to pass some condition expressions.
```C
if (trapnr == X86_TRAP_NMI)
return;
if (early_recursion_flag > 2)
goto halt_loop;
if (!xen_pv_domain() && regs->cs != __KERNEL_CS)
goto fail;
```

Here we just ignore [NMI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-maskable_interrupt). And we make sure that we are not in recursive situation. After that, we get into:

```C
if (fixup_exception(regs, trapnr))
return;
```

The `fixup_exception` function is defined in the same file as `early_fixup_exception` function and looks like:

```C
int fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
{
const struct exception_table_entry *e;
ex_handler_t handler;

e = search_exception_tables(regs->ip);
if (!e)
return 0;

handler = ex_fixup_handler(e);
return handler(e, regs, trapnr);
}
```
The `ex_handler_t` is a type of function pointer, which is defined like:
```C
typedef bool (*ex_handler_t)(const struct exception_table_entry *,
struct pt_regs *, int)
```

The `search_exception_tables` function looks up the given address in the exception table (i.e. the contents of the ELF section __ex_table). After that, we get the actual address by `ex_fixup_handler` function. At last we call actual handler. For more information about exception table, you can refer to [Documentation/x86/exception-tables.txt](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/x86/exception-tables.txt).

Back to `early_fixup_exception` function, the next step is:

```C
if (fixup_bug(regs, trapnr))
return;
```

The `fixup_bug` function is defined in [arch/x86/kernel/traps.c](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c). Let's have a look on the function implementation.

```C
int fixup_bug(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
{
if (trapnr != X86_TRAP_UD)
return 0;

switch (report_bug(regs->ip, regs)) {
case BUG_TRAP_TYPE_NONE:
case BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG:
break;

case BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN:
regs->ip += LEN_UD2;
return 1;
}

return 0;
}
```
All what this funtion do is just return `1` if the exception is generated because `#UD` (or [Invalid Opcode](https://wiki.osdev.org/Exceptions#Invalid_Opcode)) occured and the `report_bug` function returns `BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN`, otherwise return `0`.
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